We’ve covered a range of styles this last week, but I don’t think we’ve featured any bands that fit within the Indie Pop spectrum, at lea...

Norwegian city Bergen is probably our most frequently mentioned city in Nordic Music Review, yet if you consider its size, in reality it ...

''If this album doesn’t turn Siv Jakobsen into the international star she should be I’ll swim a fjord, in winter, naked.'' - David Bentley

We talk about ‘dark’ and ‘ethereal’ quite often in NMR and many Nordic artists do have that blackness about them, especially Siv Jakobsen...

I didn’t have chance to write a review of the new Matti Jasu album ‘Up & Running’, before our annual holiday, and which was released last...

I can’t deny that this week has been devastatingly sad for those of who knew and loved Tim Smith’s music. The composer / songwriter / lea...

I wrote about Icelandic band Suð back in 2016 when they suddenly reappeared with an album entitled ‘Meira Suð’. It was a welcome return f...

When I can really choose what music I want to stream around my house, I have to admit that top of the list wouldn’t bands like be The Lum...

Sweden’s Skott released her debut album, ‘Always live for always’ on 26th June, a couple of weeks later than scheduled. We covered a prev...

We found out yesterday that Finnish post rock band ‘Ghosts on TV’ had signed to Helsinki label Soliti, and it was a reminder that althoug...

My attempts to write about ‘quiet music’ lasted about a day, but there is rather a hefty stream of ‘noise rock’ style releases in our inb...

We get a fair few highly produced releases sent in our direction, often with big PR machines behind them. The new album ‘Slippery Satelli...

We’ve covered Yune (not to be confused with the also featured Lune) a few times over the last 12 months, but the good news is that their ...

I don’t know about anywhere else, but it’s been a ‘scorcher’ here in the UK today, the hottest day of the year, with perfect sunny skies ...

I always like coming across bands who haven’t released anything for a few years, because often there’s an interesting story to tell – as w...

Now here is something completely different. May 22nd saw the release of the solo piano debut album ‘Born’ by the Swedish pianist and comp...

There’s been so many good albums out in the last couple of weeks that I don’t quite know where to start, from the infections lo-fi guitar...

If the Oxford English Dictionary ever takes it upon itself to redefine minimalism it could do worse than to offer up When ‘Airy met Fairy...

Danish artist BÜNNI has been on our radar for just a few weeks, as we were sent his track ‘Taste for Life’, leaving me intrigued about hi...

Good old Fiona. We wait eight years for an album, having waited seven years for the previous one, from the artist who only writes “when s...